"Sustainable Development Goals for Business Prosperity", 27 Aug 2015

The UN will establish its future development framework as the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015…This new framework will build on the Millennium Development Goals, and will include a range of economic and environmental objectives alongside traditional development objectives such as health and education…The UN Global Compact has played an important role in bringing business perspectives to the process of shaping the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] and will continue to support companies in implementing them…[T]he UN Global Compact is engaged in projects that will help prepare individual companies for aligning their core business with the future SDGs…The toolkit will offer approaches to aligning business strategies with the SDGs, assessing impact, setting forward-looking goals and communicating results in a credible manner…